David J. Butler Announces Retirement at San Jose Mercury News

David J. Butler, editor/VP for the San Jose Mercury News and associated papers in the Bay Area News Group, and editor in chief for Digital First Mediapapers, announced that he will step down in Fall 2015. Butler is a longtime newspaper executive who has also served as editor of the New Haven Register, editor and executive vice president for news at the Los Angeles Daily News and vice president for news for MediaNews Group. For more Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area news, follow San Jose Mercury News on Twitter.